Quote

An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.

William Golding

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Newquay
Cornwall
William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
Define
Treated
Oneself
Conscious
Someone
Pomposity
Representative
Representing
Representatives

More quotes by William Golding

Image
I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
William Golding
Image
For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in one direction very much.
William Golding
Image
I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.
William Golding
Image
Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
William Golding
Image
The greatest ideas are the simplest.
William Golding
Image
They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
William Golding
Image
As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state.
William Golding
Image
For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse.
William Golding
Image
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
William Golding
Image
One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
William Golding
Image
I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
William Golding
Image
As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn't seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
William Golding
Image
Beethoven for listening Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It's as wide as literature in fact, it is probably wider.
William Golding
Image
The rules! shouted Ralph, you're breaking the rules! Who cares?
William Golding
Image
Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
William Golding
Image
Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
William Golding
Image
One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
William Golding
Image
What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
William Golding
Image
However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
William Golding
Image
Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away from each other, and write in their own patch, as it were.
William Golding